People

Berkman represents a network of faculty, fellows, students, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace.

David Ardia

David Ardia is a fellow at the Berkman Center and the director of the Citizen Media Law Project, which provides legal education and resources for individuals and organizations involved in citizen media.

Sam Bayard

Sam Bayard became a fellow of the Berkman Center and Assistant Director of the Citizen Media Law Project in 2007.

Michael Best

Michael L. Best is currently a Fellow with the Berkman Center, and a fellow and assistant professor at Georgia Tech. His work with the Berkman Center focuses on the use of computers and communication in social and economic development.

danah boyd

danah boyd is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

Tuna Chatterjee

Tuna is a fellow at the Berkman Center and a Staff Attorney with the Citizen Media Law Project, which provides legal education and resources for individuals and organizations involved in citizen media.

John Clippinger

John Clippinger has a long involvement in the intersection of technologies, markets and social and political institutions. Over the last two years, he has been researching and writing about how discoveries in the new sciences are transforming our understanding of Human Nature.

Chris Conley

Chris Conley is a Resident Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and works with the OpenNet Initiative.

Judith Donath

Judith Donath is a Berkman Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where she directs the Sociable Media Group.

Melanie Dulong de Rosnay

Fellow

Melanie Dulong de Rosnay is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where she is leading research in copyright law and information science. She is designing a distance learning course on copyright for librarians in partnership with eIFL. Also a fellow at Science Commons, she works on open access science and open data policy. She is acting publications coordinator of Communia, the European thematic network on the digital public domain.

Urs Gasser

Dr. Urs Gasser is a Berkman Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor of Law at the University of St. Gallen, where he serves as the director of the Research Center for Information Law.

Corinna di Gennaro

Corinna di Gennaro is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford. She is a sociologist working on the social implications of Internet adoption and use for civic and political engagement.

Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor is a Berkman Fellow. His work focuses on the Center for Citizen Media, a joint project with the Berkman Center and the Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication.

Oliver Goodenough

Oliver Goodenough is a Berkman Fellow and Professor at the Vermont Law School.

Shenja van der Graaf

Shenja van der Graaf is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen, a consulting researcher at MIT's Convergence Culture Consortium, and is also conducting research at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde's interests center on the public life of the imagination. He is currently at work on a book about "cultural commons," that vast, unowned store of ideas, inventions, and art that we have inherited from the past.

Beth Kolko

Beth Kolko is a Fellow at the Berkman Center and an Associate Professor in the Department of Technical Communication at the University of Washington.

Gene Koo

Gene Koo focuses on emerging methods of education in a digitally networked world. In collaboration with the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, he is developing a commons where law professors can collaboratively create teaching materials. He also studies the intersection of video games and moral development.

Karim R. Lakhani

Karim R. Lakhani is a Berkman Center Faculty Fellow and an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on distributed innovation and the movement of innovative activity to the edges of organizations and communities. He has done extensive research on open source communities and their mechanisms for innovation.

Harry Lewis

Harry Lewis is a Berkman Center Fellow.

Renee Lloyd

Fellow

Renee Lloyd is a Fellow in the Clinical Program at the Berkman Center.

Persephone Miel

Fellow

Persephone Miel is a Fellow at the Berkman Center where she directs the Media Re:public project, examining the impact of participatory journalism on the information environment.

Mary Rundle

Mary Rundle is a fellow with the Berkman Center and a non-resident fellow with the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Through the Net Dialogue project, she has been mapping ways in which governments are working in international organizations to iron out common policies for the networked world.

Dena Sacco

Fellow

Dena T. Sacco is a fellow in the Clinical Program at the Berkman Center.

Doc Searls

Doc Searls is a Berkman fellow and Senior Editor of Linux Journal, co-author (with fellow Berkman Fellow David Weinberger and others) of The Cluetrain Manifesto, and one of the world's best-known and widely read bloggers.

Wendy Seltzer

Wendy Seltzer is a Berkman Fellow and a visiting assistant professor at Northeastern School of Law, where she teaches Internet Law and Privacy.

Jake Shapiro

Previously Associate Director of the Berkman Center, Jake Shapiro now oversees various media projects. Jake is Executive Director of The Public Radio Exchange, a nonprofit online clearinghouse and community site for audio content.

Victoria Stodden

Victoria is a fellow with the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, which examines the role of the Internet in democratic decision making, focusing on the Middle East.

Eric von Hippel

Eric von Hippel is a Professor and Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and is a Fellow at the Berkman Center.

Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales is a Berkman fellow and the founder and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation that operates the Wikipedia project, and several other wiki projects.

Stephanie Wang

Stephanie Wang is a resident fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, where her work is focused on the OpenNet Initiative.

David Weinberger

David Weinberger's career has included everything from teaching philosophy to freelance writing for Wired, Salon, USAToday, The Guardian, Esther Dyson's Release 1.0, and lots more. He is working on a book about how the digitization of information is changing the most basic ways that we organize and classify the things of our world.

Ethan Zuckerman

Ethan Zuckerman became a fellow of the Berkman Center in January 2003. His work at Berkman focuses on the impact of technology on the developing world.